The Archive · 1927

Begging Pests

The ingenuity of the won't works hag no bounds, and probably never will, and that is all the more reason why those who work should exercise their brains in a m: counteract their jeularly at the present hai is all possible caution needed to guard against the wiles of the professional beggar, for the fashion to-day is to bring what appears to be a large amount of circumstantial evidence in support of the genuine nature of the case and $0 to excite the compassion of the one to be victimized. Naturally our high. Jwayman pores as the most deserying of men, but work has deserted im on account of the prevailing trade depression, and rather chan

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